The Hong Kong market is undergoing a massive shift in the type of products that are distributed as investors opt for simple, short-dated, capital-protected investments because of uncertainty about l...

Mining and manufacturing company Citic Pacific has informed shareholders its financial results will be affected by losses from leveraged foreign-exchange contracts including target redemption forwards....

Societe Generale is in discussions with Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in order to highlight the importance of backtesting as an important information pool investors can draw on when...

Investments in derivatives and structured products by fund managers in Hong Kong grew 53% in 2005 to HK$29.5 billion ($3.8 billion) from HK$19.2 billion in 2004, according to the Securities and Futu...

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has scheduled a number of new initiatives for 2005 to combat flagging investor interest in derivatives. It also plans to expand and promote its distribution of marke...

The scheduled adoption of IAS 39 may not be causing the same waves in Asia as it is in Europe, but corporate treasurers in Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore are eyeing the 1 January deadline with i...

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the financial regulator for the special administrative region of China, will not be mandating that certain types of banks adopt certain portions of the revised Base...

A quant at Citi has revived debate about the changing nature of the profession (www.risk.net/2417747). The scope is narrower, he claims; the job has been dumbed down, and today's quants are little more than programmers. Is he right?